bad and good with cox

Hope it was 'several' so they could pass them around!!


--- "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:
> moin, moin,
>
> been having intermittent problems with my cable
> connection :(. Actually, not
> with the connection, rather with getting off the cox
> network to the outside
> world.
>
> Cox decided to send out a tech even though the
> problem appears to be at
> their edge routers and should be verifiable from
> their network.
>
> The tech showed up an hour after the service window
> ( I did get called after
> the service window was over to let me know the tech
> would be late due to an
> emergency ).
>
> While waiting Qwest called claiming they can finally
> get DSL to me. Hmm,
> we'll see.
>
> Anyway, the tech did notice that the orginal setup
> had a splitter meant for
> inside use in my box outside and that the cabling
> was badly crimped. He
> fixed that.
>
> He also didn't blink when we used my GNU/Linux
> laptop to check stuff and
> mentioned he keeps seeing more and more of it :). I
> do have business
> services, but I think he's actually from the
> residential stuff because he
> mentioned that his team can't see the accounts for
> business accounts.
>
> Another tech showed up. They seemed to be pretty
> impressed with GNU/Linux
> and the fact that the 200 MHz boxen I have out front
> are useful. I gave them
> Knoppix CDs and suggested they show up for a PLUG
> meeting :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
> --
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> you want,
> # as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. -
> der.hans
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